Rupture truss



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RUPTURE TRUSSl Filed July 28, 1939 2 Sheets-Sheet l /41 y Inventor Jan S m'ey-L Si;

Dec. 24, 1940. J, s. FOSTER, SR 2,226,509

RUPTURE TRUss Filed July 28, 1939 2 sheets-sheet 2 Patented Dec. 24, 1940 PATENT OFFICE RUPTURE TRUSS John Sharp Foster, Sr., Toxcy, Ala., assignor of one-third to John W. Rudder, Toxey, Ala.

Application July 28,

3 Claims.

This invention relates to a truss for ruptures, the general object of the invention being to provide a pad of yieldable material which will hold the rupture in place without discomfort to the user and which pad can be readily separated from the supporting member and cleaned and have its padding renewed or adjusted.

Another object of the invention is to provide spring means for holding the pad resiliently against the body.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specially pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like parts throughout the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a View of the pad with the straps attached thereto.

Figure 2 is a view looking toward the pad face of the device.

Figure 3 is a rear view of the device.

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a sectional view of the annular member to which the pad is to be connected.

Figure 6 is a view of the cup-shaped member which removably holds the pad on the spring assembly.

Figure 7 is a detail sectional view through the annular member and showing how the pad covering means is attached thereto.

In these views the numeral I indicates an annular member which is provided with the exterior flange 2 at one end thereof and the interiorv ange 3 at the other end thereof. The pad P is composed of a filling 4 of any suitable material and a covering 5 of any suitable material and as shown in Figure 7 this covering is passed over the flange 3 and then along the interior of the member I and then over the flange 2 and part- Way over the exterior of the member I where said part is fastened in place by the ring 6 of any suitable material. As will be seen where the covering passes over the interior flange 3 a neck of reduced diameter is formed through which the iiller material 4 can be passed into the pad to properly lill the same and after the proper amount of material has been placed in the cover a disk 1 of cardboard or other flexible material is placed in the neck portion as shown in Figure 4, this disk holding the filling material in place. This disk has suflicient flexibility so that it can be manipulated to be passed by the reduced part 3 and then straightened so that it will be held in position by said reduced part.

A disk 8 of considerably larger diameter than the pad assembly has a cup-shaped member 9 attached thereto at its center as shown at Ill and this cup-shaped member frictionally engages the member I with the pad attached thereto so that the p-ad assembly is detachably connected with the disk 8 by the cup-shaped member 9.

A small ring II is attached to the disk 8 and a plurality of radiating springs I2 connect the ring II with a large ring I3 so that the disk 8 with the pad assembly is resiliently supported by the springs from the large ring I3.

This large ring I3 at diametrically opposite points is attached to the end of a belt or strap I4 adapted to be passed around the waist or other part of the body of the user with the ends of the strap connected together by the buckle I5 and a leg strap I6 has a loop I'I at one end through which the strap I4 passes and a hook I8 is connected to the other end of the strap I6 and is adapted to engage the ring I 3 as shown more particularly in Figures 2 and 3. These straps are preferably of elastic material so that they will snugly hold the pad against the rupture and as will be seen the pad being of cushion-like form will engage the body without discomfort to the user. It will also be seen that the pad can be removed whenever desired and the cover as well as the filling material cleaned or replaced.

When it is desirable to use the device at the opposite side of the body from that for which the parts have been arranged, the strap IE is removed by slipping the loop II off the strap I4 and removing the hook I8 from the ring I3. Then the parts are inverted and the strap I6 replaced with the hook I8 in a position on ring I3 diametrically opposite that which it originally held. Thus the device can be used for either right or left ruptures.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A truss device of the class described comprising a flat supporting disk, a pad, means for connecting the pad with the central part of one face of the disk, said pad and the connection means being of considerably less diameter than the diameter of the disk, a small ring cent-rally arranged on the opposite face of the disk, a large ring of greater diameter than the disk and radiating coiled springs connecting the two rings t0- gether.

2. In a truss device of the class described, a ring having an inwardly extending ange at one end and an' outwardly extending ilange at the opposite end, a pad covering havingl a mouth portion passing over the interior ange, then along the interior part of the ring and then over the exterior ilange and over a portion of the exterior part of the ring, means for fastening said mouth part to the exterior portion of the ring, a cupshaped member having its flange tting in the ring and engaging that part of the covering that passes over the interior part of the ring for holding said part of the covering between said flange and the interior part of the ring, a lling for the covering and a ilexible disk for holding the filling in place, said disk resting against that portion of the covering which passes over the internal flange at the outer side of said flange.

3. A truss device of the class described comprising a flat supporting disk, a pad, means for detachably connecting the pad to the central portion of said disk on one face of the disk, said pad and the connecting means being of considerably less diameter than the diameter of the disk, a small ring connected to the central portion of the opposite face of the disk, a large ring of larger diameter than the disk, radiating coiled springs connecting the two rings together, a body encircling strap connected at opposite points to the large ring and a leg strap having one end detachably connected with the rst-mentioned strap and a hook at the other end of the leg strap for engaging a part of the large ring.

JOHN SHARP' FOSTER, SR. 

